CAPTCHA Designfestival 2018

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Initiated and organized by students of the University of Applied Sciences Mannheim the CAPTCHA Design Festival takes place for the fifth time this summer. The workshops and the symposium revolve around this year’s topic DIMENSION. Together with the participating students, reputable guests from design and art will develop innovative and new ways of design. The results will be presented in a final one-week exhibition.

CAPTCHA Designfestival 2018

When?
Symposium: 
September 3rd, 2018, 9 a.m.
(Zeitraum, Mannheim)

Workshops:
September 4th–7th, 2018
(Zeitraum, Mannheim)

Vernissage: 
September 7th, 2018, 6 p.m.
(Kunstverein Mannheim)

After Party:
September 7th, 2018, 10:30 p.m.
(Disco Zwei)

Exhibition:
September 8th–16th, 2018
(Kunstverein Mannheim)

Where?
Zeitraumexit 
Hafenstraße 68
68159 Mannheim

Kunstverein Mannheim
Augustaanlage 58
68165 Mannheim

Disco Zewi
T6 14
68161 Mannheim

Here you get more informations.

Offprint-Reader

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Frankfurt, Leipzig, Cologne, Berlin, Paris, London —there are a lot of offprint fairs all over the world where you can see an artistic selfpublishing scene grow and meet. Fresh experiments and ideas can be found from small publishers and in small print runs, far away from mainstream and commercial printing.

The students Magdalena Rank, Anna-Lena Janke, Marvin Eichholz und Theresa Dzung-Tien Nguyen have collected all events to give an overview of what’s going on internationally in 2018.

A very nice project, unfortunately not for sale as it is part of a design initiative at the University of Applied Sciences Mainz.

Offprint-Reader

Design: Magdalena Rank, Anna-Lena Janke, Marvin Eichholz, Theresa Dzung-Tien Nguyen
HocUniversity of Applied Sciences Mainz 2018
Communication Design
Inititiativeunder supervision of Prof. Johannes Bergerhausen
Language: English
Format: 22 × 42 cm
Volume: 104 sheets

Slanted in Tokyo

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A year ago, the Slanted team dove into Tokyo—with their friends Renna Okubo and Ian Lynam preventing them from drowning—to take an intense look at the contrasting design scene. The Japanese capital is a unique place. With its clean streets, punctual transportation and polite service at every turn, Tokyo is more than just a well-run city. It unites cultural extremes: it is a city where the futuristic meets the traditional and tranquility meets speed. In the Slanted #31—Tokyo you can get a visual impression of the studios we visited during our journey.

Born in 1975, in Nagaoka City, Kiyonori Muroga started working as the editor of the graphic design magazine IDEA in 1999 at Seibundo Shinkosha Publishing, and edited a number of design and typography related books. He often contributes to design media and gives lectures at educational organizations. Muroga bridges “design and “dezain” (Japanese katakana).

Take a look at the Slanted Magazine #31—Tokyo to get an idea of Tokyo’s creative environment. Additionally you can find several video-interviews on our video platform to get a deeper insight in the designer’s thoughts.

komma #21

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The komma-Magazine is the platform for student work of the Faculty of Design at the University of Applied Sciences Mannheim.

Each issue is and every aspect is entirely executed by Student-Editors. The staff is in constant change and through this every issue gets its very unique theme and identity. As regards content we publish Term Papers, Course Specials as well as Bachelor- and Master Theses. Depending on the issue and theme we also publish guest art works and interviews of various Designers. Every Issue is sent to over 1000 addresses of Designers, Agencies and Bureaus in the industry.

The 21st issue of komma magazine deals with boundaries, borders and limits.

But what’s it all about? This question is way more difficult to answer than you might think at first.

Limits structure our lives—no matter if they are geographically, politically, economically, linguistically, personally or socially.

But also a designer is affected by them. On the one hand boundaries serve as an orientation, but on the other hand it is important to break them down to create something entirely new.

This issue shows visual works and focuses on various forms of limits in different areas of design, but also in our everyday lives.

The second part gives an insight into degree theses, student works, events and exhibitions of the Faculty for Design of the University of Applied Sciences Mannheim.

An inlay, which contains some interviews with different designers and studios about their experiences with borders clearly separates these two parts.

komma Magazin – Grenzen

Publisher: University of Mannheim – Design Department – komma magazin
Design: Fiona Oehler, Camilla Schröer, Maximilian Borchardt, Kerstin Sebesta, Sarah Zink, Bianca Werdan
Release: April 2018
Pages: 173
Format: 17,5 × 24,5 cm
Price: free

Orders to: [email protected]

FORTY FIVE SYMBOLS #5

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Issue #5 of the the FORTY FIVE SYMBOLS magazine is risographed in gold and black. It introduces the six winners and three honorary mentions of the open call 17/18 which received more submissions than any open call before including entries from India, Dominican Republic, Lebanon, Spain, Switzerland, and USA. Participants conducted forensic analysis of common everyday objects to act as a subtle wake-up call about modern life; developed speculative linguistics of a dystopian machine-driven world; observed cultural heritage, migration, and personal mobility; and translated socio-political topics of their culture into systems of forty-five visuals.

FORTY FIVE SYMBOLS #5

Art Direction: Pascal Glissmann, Olivier Arcioli, Andreas Henrich
Editors: Pascal Glissmann, Olivier Arcioli, Andreas Henrich
Release: July 2018
Volume: 24 pages
Format: 20,5 x 29,2 cm
Language: English
Execution: Risography Print
Price: 9,– Euro
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Hessen Design Routes

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Once again the German design festival named “Design Routes” based in Hessen, open it’s doors in 2018 to everyone who is interested in getting a close insight into design concepts of around 50 creative studios around Hessen. You will have the opportunity to participate in many workshops, lectures, exhibitions, and much more!

When? 
Friday, August 24th, 2018
12 a.m.–5 p.m.
Saturday, August 25th, 2018
10 a.m.–4 p.m.
Festival period:
August 24th–25th, 2018 (Rhein-Main)
August 31st–September 1st, 2018 (Kassel)

Where?
post-industrielle Kulisse 
Ost-stern

Hanauer Landstraße 121

60314 Frankfurt am Main

Neue Denkerei

Friedrichsstraße 28

34117 Kassel

Get more informations here.

Adobe Hidden Treasures: Bauhaus Dessau

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For the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus Dessau, Adobe has launched the beautiful project “Adobe Hidden Treasures—Bauhaus Dessau,” in which almost forgotten, unfinished font designs and letter sketches of legendary Bauhaus masters have been taken from the archives and now completed.

In collaboration with the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation and Erik Spiekermann, Adobe has realized the project and will now successively publish five new fonts based on legendary Bauhaus designs by Xanti Schawinsky, Joost Schmidt, Carl Marx (July 2018), Alfred Arndt (August 2018) and Reinhold Rossig (September 2018). Three fonts are already published: Xants, Joschmi and CarlMarx which are available via Typekit.

We are proud to present the fourth font: Alfarn, based on the work of Bauhaus student Alfred Arndt. It was designed by Céline Hurka (Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague). We conducted an exclusive interview with the designer in which she gave us personal insights into her work on the Alfarn.

What do you spontaneously think of about the Bauhaus?

I have to think mainly about how many fundamental ideas in art, architecture and design have changed at that time. It also reminds me how important studying can be, as it has the potential to form new general approaches and structures. Visually I associate with the Bauhaus a certain simplicity and reduction in forms and colours, as well as a playful precision and rigour.

How did you come to the Adobe Hidden Treasures project?

In mid-April, Erik van Blokland wrote to me and introduced me to the project. When he offered me to participate, I was naturally very happy. We were shown the various original designs from the Bauhaus and the letters on Alfred Arndt’s posters immediately appealed to me. Fortunately, I was able to start designing exactly these letters a week later.

What thoughts did you have when designing the letters?

At the beginning of the project, I first of all dealt visually with the technique Alfred Arndt used on the poster. On closer inspection, you will notice that he probably worked with a brush. That was enormously important for the general construction and for some details, since the technique is also associated with certain limitations.

At the same time I researched Arndt’s curriculum vitae and found out that he had a connection to both painting and architecture. I then decided to construct the typeface geometrically on a grid of lines and reduce many of the optical compensations to a minimum. One of the biggest difficulties was also that I had very few letters available in the original and that I had different cuts to choose from. In the end, I worked out several that can be used as features in the font. Altogether it was very important to me not to keep the font too rigid and geometric but also to handle the shapes playfully.

What do you take out of the project for yourself, what did you learn?

Before the project, I hadn’t really dealt with type design from the Bauhaus. Looking back, it was of course exciting to learn more about this time and to experiment with its approaches. The nice thing about the project was to get to know other students and to exchange our fonts.

At the same time this font is my first to be published and there were some technical and organizational things I learned. Since everything went quite fast and we only had one month to design, it was a very different process than with previous fonts that I designed at KABK over several months. Finally, I would like to thank Erik van Blokland, Paul van der Laan, Peter Verheul, Ferdinand Ulrich and Erik Spiekermann for their feedback and support. I’m pretty sure I’ve learned many things from this project that I’ll need in the future.

Alfarn
Alfarn is based on capital letters that Bauhaus student Alfred Arndt (1898–1976) drew for a poster in 1923, designed to advertise a bakery in Jena, Thuringia. The poster is an example for what we call today “Bauhaus features”: yellow circle, red square, black bars and an indication of geometric lettering that became so popular in the following years. Céline Hurka carefully analysed Arndt’s lettering and derived two weights in different widths: wide and condensed, available as OpenType alternates. She took on the characteristic bars and transformed them into an underlined weight of its own. Hurka also drew perfectly balanced small caps, which make up for a missing lower case. Alfarn captures the spirit of 1920s Bauhaus-influenced posters—a timeless style quite suitable for contemporary designs.

Design competition:

With the publication of the fonts, Adobe is also launching a five-part design competition in which all creative people are invited to design with the new fonts for the first time. There are exclusive prizes to be won, including a trip to the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. More information on how to participate can be found here.

Coming soon:

Font 5: September 2018—Designed by Elia Preuss, based on the work of Bauhaus master Reinhold Rossig

Background:

Although the Bauhaus was only active for 14 years after its opening, it is still considered today to be the best known modern school for architecture, design and art of the last 100 years. In 1932 the Dessau municipal council, dominated by the National Socialist Party, decides to dissolve the Bauhaus School in Dessau. The unfinished masterpieces of the designers Xanti Schawinsky, Joost Schmidt, Carl Marx, Alfred Arndt and Reinhold Rossig have therefore remained in the archives to this day.

“Hidden Treasures of Creativity is an ongoing project that aims to revive lost creative history to inspire current generations. Last year, Adobe worked with the Munch Museum and the world’s leading Photoshop brush expert, Kyle T. Webster, to recreate Edvard Munch’s brushes. Tens of thousands of people downloaded the brushes and were inspired by the old master. This year, Adobe recognizes the unbroken influence of the Bauhaus, whose goal was to rethink the future, unfold it in everyday creativity, to shape modernity in all its demands—including typography and design from the beginning, which has driven us to innovation to this day. We hope that by bringing these hidden treasures to the present day, we can inspire many creative people,” said Sabina Strasser, Head of Brand Marketing, EMEA at Adobe.

Eastern Design Conference

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“Design is a global language, yet the business that’s done here in the east stays local. We aim to explore this unordinary relationship.”, as Roman Juhás says, co-founder of the conference.

Speakers:

Liv Siddall, the editor of one of the most beloved UK’s music institutions–Rough Trade–comes to share her experience on how to make a music magazine of a legendary record store having as low budget as possible.

Studio Feixen, an independent design studio creating powerful visual concepts based in Lucerne, Switzerland. Felix Pfäffli and Raphael Leutenegger come to talk about an ability to create work with global impact from a small town on the outskirts of Switzerland.

Professor Lars Harmsen is an art director and one of the partners in the Melville Brand Design studio in Munich, professor of design and typography at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences & Art and editor-in-chief of Slanted Publishers residing in Karlsruhe.

PEKNE & DOBRE and Potraviny YEME, is one of the most successful, long-term and aesthetically pleasing cooperation in Slovak business environment. Martin Bajaník is a founder of a design studio PEKNE & DOBRE, co-founder of café Shtoor. Martin is behind Yeme’s astounding aesthetics. Peter Varmuža is former COO of Tesco Slovakia and co-founder of the first conceptual grocery market in Slovakia, Potraviny Yeme.

Studio Najbrt is a legendary Czech graphic design studio. The studio’s longtime collaborations with the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival or the City of Prague among many have established it as a reference in the region. Founder Aleš Najbrt and a representative of Masaryk University – MUNI come to Eastern to talk about their controversial yet successful collaboration on redesigning the university’s visual identity.

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Vernissage Courage to Rage 2018

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The political poster is experiencing a revival. In its 5th year, the international Poster Competition and Festival “Mut zur Wut” (“Courage to Rage”) has developed significant global relevance, which in 2014 will resulted in over 2500 submissions from 54 countries.

The Poster Festival aims to raise awareness for global and social issues and circumstances while loosening geographical and ideological boundaries. Having the final exhibition displayed in public space, the Festival is an encouragement to be brave and at the same time a provoking demand for attention.
In a two day meeting, the 5 internationaly noted members of the jury will review all submitted posters. The most significant 30 submissions will be nominated and produced for an exhibition that will be put in various cities.The choice of topics for the subject is free. The poster should have a critical, social, political and/or personal content, visualized in a meaningful motif.

Once a year “Mut zur Wut” transforms the public space to a scene of visual resistance. A niche of freedom in otherwise completely monitored and continuously controlled urban areas. The exhibition of the winning posters transforms the streets into a stage for art—an enormous public gallery, in which you are forced to see, think, get mentally and emotionally involved. The presentation of the posters in public space is a reconquest of urban space, that is threaten to degenerate into a dull and exchangeable advertising platform.

The winning posters will be put on busy roads and high-traffic locations in several waves. Thousands of views and contacts with pedestrians, cars, busses are the result of this prominent placement. The daily encounter with the posters leads to the often profound and sometimes not at first glance perceptible messages, which provoke an intense engagement with the contents.

Throughout the past years, the exhibition was displayed not only in public space but also in various German cities such as Heidelberg, Mannheim, Berlin, Munich, Giessen, Lucerne (Switzerland), Perugia (Italy) as well as Oaxaca (Mexico) and Kuethaya (Turkey), and most recently in London.

Vernissage Mut zur Wut

When?
Vernissage: July 25th 2018, 6 p.m.

Where?
Heidelberger Landgericht
Kurfürstenanlage 15
69115 Heidelberg

Torino Graphic Days 2018

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Turin will be the centre of the international scene of visual design with the third edition of the Torino Graphic Days from September 11th to October 14th, a festival dedicated to visual arts. The festival’s main goal is to shorten the distance between the visual design field and people who is not from the sector, bringing the most relevant artists and professionals of the European background of visual communication.

This year the event will take place from September 11th to October 9th with a widespread program of more than 35 events called “In the city” to go on, from October 11th to 14th, with the third edition of the festival: “Torino Graphic Days Vol. 03”. Four days of workshops, talks, performances, exhibitions and a market fair that will bring to Turin the best of the international landscape.

Among the 7 workshops’ tutors there will be some of the most relevant professionals of this field like Studio Dunbar (NL) Studio Mucho (ES) and Onlab (DE, CH). Among the festival’s guests there will be also Professors coming from some of the most renowned Universities of the graphic field, like the Director of ISIA Urbino, Jonathan Pierini, and the R&D Director of ECAL of Lausanne, Davide Fornari.

The festival will host 6 talks with 24 speakers, like Vasjen Katro, the Albanian artist who has become famous for the project Baugasm, Magoz, the Spanish illustrator who has collaborated with The New York Times, WeTransfer and the MIT Technology Review, Giorgio Camuffo, Professor at University of Bolzano and curator of the Giro Giro Tondo – Design for Children exhibition at La Triennale di Milano and Riccardo Catagnano from Saatchi & Saatchi.

The festival will deal with all the aspects of graphic design: from handcrafted techniques, like engraving, to the artistic field’s ones, like illustration and sign painting and to contemporary sectors like branding and animation.

This year edition will host 12 exhibitions, like the show on the Polish visual communication scene and the focus on the the Italian modern graphic design history, besides the experience based itineraries where visitors will be able to experiment different graphic techniques.

The festival’s new edition inauguration will take place on October 11th at 6:30 p.m. with an opening party with artistic and music performances.

Fabio Guida, Festival Coordinator and Professor of communication design at Politecnico of Torino, declares: “The aim of Torino Graphic Days is attracting and involving a wider audience through all the activities that are related to visual communication, in order to show how it affects every aspect of our everyday life”, Audience engagement is actually our main goal: we’re using interaction and experimentation as key factors for making visual design an inclusive field, a subject that is not just for professionals anymore. Each brand new “volume” of the festival promotes an exchange among professionals coming from the international scene. We are inviting the authors of the most interesting projects from all over the world to try to erase the borders between different disciplines and put them together in a contamination context.”

Torino Graphic Days

When?
September 11th until October 14th

Where?
Various Locations in Turin
Italia

 

Summer Festival at Merz Academy

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Save the Date! Die Merz Akademie invites everyone for its summer festival on Saturday July 21st 2018, 2 p.m. The program contains of the students’ work exhibition and finals exhibition of the summer semester, live music with Gina V. D’Orio (COBRA KILLER), Der Kvnstler, Perigon, Campusnet Attack and DJ Arne Hübner, Workshops with Roboland, Parkour and a picnic in the park.

When?
Sat, July 21st 2018
2 p.m.—10 p.m.

Where?
Merz Akademie
Teckstrasse 58
70190 Stuttgart

Indiecon 2018 – The Independent Magazine Festival: No more borders!

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Meg Miller (Eye on Design)

Oliver Gehrs (DUMMY)

Ernst van Hoeven (MacGuffin)

Laurel Schwulst (Beautiful Company)

Jana Al Obeidyine (a Dance Mag)

Mike Koedinger (Paperjam) and Sissel Hansen (Startup Guide)

Complete Program

When:
September 7th—8th 2018

Where:
Oberhafen, Hamburg
Stockmeyerstr. 43
20457 Hamburg

Tickets
indienations.de

49°—Open Studios

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v 49°—Open Studios
Daily in BNN and from 4 to 8 pm in the artists’ studios

Wed, July, 25
Karlheinz Bux
Luisenstraße 16 B, 76137 Karlsruhe

Thu, July, 26
Angela Ulrich
Goethestraße 36, 76135 Karlsruhe

Fri, July, 27
Renate Koch
Hardtstr. 37a, 76185 Karlsruhe
Atelier im Tempel

Sat, July, 28
Uwe Lindau
Roonstr. 22, 76137 Karlsruhe

Mon, July, 30
Das Änderungsatelier (Georg Schweitzer / Frau Stemmer)
Irisweg, 76199 Karlsruhe
Im Hochbunker

Tue, July, 31
Georg Schalla
Kehler Landstr. 49, 76437 Rastatt
Im Art Zentrum, durch das Hauptportal des Zollamtes Rastatt hindurch

Wed, August, 1
Lisa-Marie Pfeffel
Lisztstraße 17, 75179 Pforzheim

Thu, August, 2
Ursula Fleischmann
Karlstraße 73, 76133 Karlsruhe

Fri, August, 3
Lucia Madriz
Thomas-Mann-Straße 5, 76275 Ettlingen

Sat, August, 4
Elke Hennen
Nuitsstraße 6A, 76185 Karlsruhe

Mon, August, 6
Enrico Bach
Wikingerstraße 9a, 76189 Karlsruhe Rheinhafen

Tue, August, 7
Simon Pfeffel
Stephanplatz, 76133 Karlsruhe

Wed, August, 8
Gunther Wessmann
Kaiserpassage 11, 76133 Karlsruhe
Laden 13a, 1. Stock

Thu, August, 9
Gundula Bleckmann
Sophienstraße 134, 76135 Karlsruhe

Fri, August, 10
Frida Ruiz
Gerwigstraße 34, 76131 Karlsruhe

Sat, August, 11
Guang Yao Wu
For the Address Information please call 0721 406917
Pfinztal, Berghausen

Mon, August, 13
Thomas Gatzemeier
Mathystraße 40, 76133 Karlsruhe

Tue, August, 14
Karin Kieltsch
Boeckhstraße 13, 76137 Karlsruhe

Wed, August, 15
Simone van gen Hassend
Alter Schlachthof 13a, 76131 Karlsruhe
Atelierhaus Circus 3000

Thu, August, 16
Lukas Schneeweiss
Gartenstraße 60, 76135 Karlsruhe
Im Hinterhof

Fri, August, 17
Nina Laaf
Augartenstraße 6, 76137 Karlsruhe

Sat, August, 18
Willi Gilli
Pforzheimer Str. 9A, 75015 Bretten

Mon, August, 20
No Visiting Date!

Tue, August, 21
Andreas Arndt
Hirschstraße 45, 76133 Karlsruhe

Wed, August, 22
Eva Schaeuble
Haydnplatz 2, 76133 Karlsruhe

Thu, August, 23
Eva-Maria Lopez
Sophienstraße 169, 76185 Karlsruhe

Fri, August, 24
Susanne Ackermann
Bachstraße 81, 76185 Karlsruhe
Hinterhaus, bei Werkstatt klingeln

Sat, August, 25
Hannah Cooke
Ludwig-Marum-Straße 43, 76185 Karlsruhe

Mon, August, 27
Peter Gather
Irisweg, 76199 Karlsruhe
Im Hochbunker

Tue, August, 28
Benjamin Köder / Annabella Spielmannleiter
Viktoriastraße 8, 76133 Karlsruhe

Wed, August, 29
Jordan Madlon
Gablonzer Str. 11, 76185 Karlsruhe

Thu, August, 30
Christoph Dinges
Kurfürstenstraße 10, 76137 Karlsruhe
Im Hinterhof

Fri, August, 31
Anas
Waldhornstraße, Backyard between house No. 27 and 29
76131 Karlsruhe

Sat, September, 1
Barbara Denzler
Schöllbronner Str. 84, 76275 Ettlingen

Mon, September, 3
Ute Maria Schmid
Gerwigstraße 60, 76131 Karlsruhe

Tue, September, 4 bw 6 – 8 pm
Daniel Roth
Bismarckstr. 67, 76133 Karlsruhe
In the Bildhauergarten of Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe

Wed, September, 5
Daniel Wogenstein
Viktoriastraße 8, 76133 Karlsruhe

Thu, September, 6
Tanja Goetzmann
Kreuzstraße 31, 76133 Karlsruhe

Fri, September, 7
Mona Breede
Geibelstraße 4, 76185 Karlsruhe

Sat, September, 8
Marleine Chedraoui
Gartenstraße 64, 76135 Karlsruhe
Im Hinterhaus

33pt SHOW HIDDEN CHARACTERS

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Programm for Cologne

Thu, June 28th 2018 

TH KÖLN, KISD,
Ubierring 40,
Köln

10:00 INTRO
10:15 MARK KIESSLING, do you read me ?!
11:15 KAI VON RABENAU, mono.kultur
12:15 FRAGEN/FEEDBACK
12:3O PAUSE
13:30 FRANZISKA MORLOK, Rimini Berlin / FH Potsdam
14:30 JEANNETTE WEBER & KLAUS NEUBURG, FROH!
15.30 FRAGEN/FEEDBACK
GET TOGETHER

Programm for Dortmund

Fri, June 29th 2018

FH Dortmund
Max-Ophüls-Platz 2
44137 Dortmund

10:00 INTRO Prof. Dirk Gebhardt
10:30 NADJA ZOBEL, mare
11:30 ANDREAS TRAMPE, Stern
12:30 PAUSE
13:30 RENÉ BOSCH, vice.com
14:30 STUDENT SPECIAL
15:30 SANDRA KASSENAAR, MacGuffin
16:30 GET TOGETHER TIME

Order in Design

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At the University of Mainz, the basic book »Order in Design« was published in spring. It is about regularities of visual communication.

Want to win this book? Take part in our lottery! Send an email entitled “Order in Design” to [email protected] until July 7th, 2018. When taking part you agree to our privacy policy and that you’ll be receiving news from Slanted via our newsletter. There is no right of appeal. Good luck!

Order in Design

Design: Michael Schmitz & Ulysses Voelker
Publisher: Designlabor Gutenberg, Hochschule Mainz
Language: German
Format: 175 mm × 250 mm
Volume: 168 Pages
Print: Klaus Völker, Hochschule Mainz
Processing: Softcover mit Klebebindung
ISBN: 978-3-9818002-4-1
Price: EURO 24,– 

You can buy the book here.

Fluid Rhythms—Open Set Summer School, LAB & Seminar

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Open Set is pleased to announce the Call for Applications for their new seven-month program Fluid Rhythms: Urban Networks and Living Patterns. It’s a fresh round of Open Set, dedicated to exploring the potential of rhythm in the context of the Bijlmer, — one of the most vibrant neighborhoods in Amsterdam, once envisioned as an urban utopia and (in)famous for being called the “city of the future”. Open Set is looking forward to a new collaboration with the scientific consortium Designing Rhythm for Social Resilience — together they investigate rhythm-led practices as common ground for research and artistic practice.

Designed to enrich an active studio practice or ongoing education, their  programs are aimed at makers and thinkers (design & art fields) who seek a deeper understanding of emergent discourses, connect to the international network of peers, and those who want to take their work in new, unexpected directions.

Summer School 
August 15th–25th, 2018
Application deadline: July 1st, 2018
Intensive program of workshops and lectures.

Open Set LAB
Practicing Rhythm: October 19th, 2018–February 23rd, 2019
Application deadline: August 20th, 2018
Five-month programme with practice-based sessions held every two weeks in the Bijlmer, aiming at developing individual projects. The parallel trajectories will end in sync, with a shared public presentation and conference.

Seminar: Rhythmanalysis in Context
August 13th, 2018–February 9th, 2019
Application deadline: July 1st , 2018
Series of presentations, discussions and theoretical texts readings from different disciplines, aiming at exploring the key concepts and multidisciplinary practices related to rhythmanalysis.

*The applications are open for individual modules, or for the combination for all three. Apply now!

Theme Fluid Rhythms 

“The crowd is a body, the body is a crowd”
— Henri Lefebvre

Life in the city both repeats itself, and is constantly changing. Situated in the Bijlmer, one of Amsterdam’s neighborhoods, Open Set launches a new programme, dedicated to exploring the potential of rhythm in the city. The movement of bodies in space; financial transactions; the circulation of sounds, cells, and smells; changing social constructs that divide and connect people; the flow of microscopic substances—such looping patterns generate dynamic complex structures, or ‘rhythms’, that shift over time. In the words of Caroline Nevejan: “where there is rhythm, there is life”. Understanding and working with such dynamic complexities requires careful attunement to the interactions between social, imagined, and physical realms.

Open Set is looking for artists, designers and scholars to join this international and interdisciplinary programme that investigates the potential of rhythm-led practices as common ground for research and artistic work. This means both providing tools to perceive rhythms, as well as tools to tap into their generative potential. Rhythms occur on multiple levels at the same time, in the macro-level structures of the city, within the cells of bodies, and in the interconnections between mind, emotion, brain and heartbeats. By investigating the intertwined patterns of change, a world of subtle complexity starts to reveal itself to us in how humans, machines, animals and microbes interact and coexist.

Design & artistic interventions can take on any form, whether they are sound, food or image-based formats, performances or digital applications — offering the opportunity to discover new, invisible or forgotten rhythms, to find the points of friction and blind spots and to transform and harness the power for social and ecological change. Eventually, working with rhythms is a way of synchronizing our efforts in acting and living together in a network society.

Local & Scientific Partners
All events are hosted and supported by the municipality and local cultural centres, and informed by people actively involved in the life of local communities. The principal scientific partner is the research group Designing Rhythm for Social Resilience (2018–2022), with affiliated institutions OIS Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam, Delft University of Technology, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions.

The programme is made possible by the support of City of Amsterdam Zuidoost, Het Pauwhof Fonds, CBK Zuidoost.

Open Source Festival Congress 2018

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When:
Fry, Juli 13th 2018
10 a.m.—22 p.m., Entry 9 a.m.

Where:
Galopprennbahn Grafenberg
Rennbahnstraße 20
40629 Düsseldorf

Tickets:
Limitation to 500 persons
Regular: 199 EUR, Junior: 110 EUR

Sponsored by:
Ministerium für Wirtschaft, Innovation, Digitalisierung und Energie des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, innogy Stiftung für Energie und Gesellschaft

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Wacom, sipgate

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Slanted is giving away 1 x 2 tickets for the Open Source Festival Congress 2018. To participate in the raffle, write an email with the subject “Open Source Festival Congress 2018” to [email protected] until Monday, 02 July 2018, 11 am , The legal process is excluded. By participating I agree with the privacy policy. Good luck!

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bauhaus imaginista

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March 23rd and 24th 2018 
bauhaus imaginista: Learning From

April 8th until August 26th 2018 
bauhaus imaginista: Moving Away

April 9th and 10th 2018
bauhaus imaginista: Moving Away

June 7th until 9th 2018
bauhaus imaginista: Learning From

August 4th until October 8th 2018
bauhaus imaginista: Corresponding With

August 5th 2018
Goethe-Institut Tokyo (Japan)

September 11th until November 30th 2018
bauhaus imaginista: Designing Life: The Internationalist Architect

October 24th 2018 until January 10th 2019
bauhaus imaginista: Learning From

November 24th until 25th 2018
bauhaus imaginista: Moving Away

November 30th and December 1st 2018
bauhaus imaginista: Corresponding With

März 15th until June 9th 2019
Opening March 14th 2019

www.bauhaus-imaginista.org

Opening of the exhibition bauhaus imaginista: Moving Away, China Design Museum, Hangzhou, photo: Ye Zhi, © Ghoete Institut
Exhibition bauhaus imaginista: Moving Away, China Design Museum, Hangzhou, photo: Liu Yongge, © Goethe Institut
Exhibition bauhaus imaginista: Moving Away, China Design Museum, Hangzhou, photo: Wan Jinyu Meng Qinwei, © Goethe Institut
Exhibition bauhaus imaginista: Moving Away, China Design Museum, Hangzhou, photo: Liu Yongge, © Goethe Institut
Exhibition baushaus imaginista: Learning from Rabat, Goethe Institut Morocco, photo: Abdessamad el Montassir und Stephanos Mangriotis, © Goethe Institut
Exhibition baushaus imaginista: Learning from Rabat, Goethe Institut Morocco, photo: Abdessamad el Montassir und Stephanos Mangriotis, © Goethe Institut
Exhibition baushaus imaginista: Learning from Rabat, Goethe Institut Morocco, photo: Abdessamad el Montassir und Stephanos Mangriotis, © Goethe Institut

schaubau – international summer school of design dessau

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schaubau is an international summer school which takes place once a year in the heart of Dessau – the city of the Bauhaus. A design camp, which is targeted at all creative students, craftsmen and -women, creators of value of all designing disciplines like design, architecture and art.

One week long the schaubau summer school addresses oneself with creativity and hands-on-mentaltity to a real task on the spot, which shall be explored, treated and implemented by 15 participants from different fields.

A framework programme supplies a chequered productive and sunny summer week in Dessau. This year the workshopleader will be Van Bo Le-Mentzel.

Book now here! For more informations visit the web site here.

TypeCon2018: Xx

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TypeCon is an annual conference presented by the non-profit Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA), an international organization dedicated to the promotion, study, and support of typography and related arts.

Since the inaugural conference in 1998, TypeCon has explored type for the screen, printing history, Dutch design, type in motion, Arabic calligraphy, the American Arts and Crafts movement, experimental typography, webfonts, and much more. Special events include the Type & Design Education Forum, and an exhibition of international type and design.

Along with a jam-packed main program, other events include the Type & Design Education Forum, a quartet of special presentations by Gemma O’Brien, Louise Fili, Nina Stössinger, and Lauren Hom, the popular Type Quiz, the SOTA Silent Auction, drinks and noshes at the SOTA Spacebar, several international type exhibitions, plus the Type Crit featuring the typographic elucidations of Matthew Carter, John Downer, and Jill Pichotta. Workshops, presentations, panel discussions, networking events, tours, and other social gatherings will round out nearly a week’s worth of typographic adventures and inspiration.

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